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H. E. DEWEY.

Horse Hay-Fork.

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HERBERT E. D-EVVEY, O F A URO RA, ILLIN 01S.

' v i Letters Patent No. 73,515, dated January 21, 1863.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE HAY-FORKS.

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TO ALL WHOMIT MAY CONCERN:

'Be it known that I, HERBEhTE. DEWEY, of Aurora, in the conntycf Kane, and State of Illinois, havc invented a new and useful Improvement in Screw-Forks for Elevating Hay; and I do hereby declare and make known that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters and figures marked. thereon, which form part of this specification.

My said invention relates to that class'oi' devices for-grasping and elevating hay,"straw, and other similar products, which are operated by being s'erewed into the hay or other substance to be elevated, and by being screwed out from thesame when it is required to detach and deposit the load in the desired position. And to 'this end my said invention consists in combining, with a screw-fork, a spool, upon which -the cord is wound, and

from which it is unwound, and two-sheaves tinder which said cord passcs, to facilitate the'operation ofthc fork, as hereinafter fully set forth;

To enable those skilled in the art tomake aiid usemy said invention, I will now describe the same with particularity, making reference in so doing to: the aforesaid drawings, in which- ;Figure 1 represents a pl'z'in or topi'view of my id'vention.

Figure 2 is e brittom view of the same, in section atm, in fig. 3, and

Figure 3 is aside view'or elevation of said invention.

Siniilar letters of reference in the several figures denote the same parts of my invention.

A represents the fork, whose shank pisses up through a. hearing at the middle of the curved arm B, which supports, uporrits upper ends, sheaves G C, as shown. The shank of the fork rotates freely in its hearing in the arm B, which, rests upon a collar, a, upon the said shank. Upon the shank of the fork, above the arm B, is rigidly fixed a spool,.D, provided with lower and upper flanges E and F, between which a cord or rope, R, is

. wound or unwound, said eordpassing through holes ff in the upper flange, as shown, the-ends passing under sheaves QC, arranged with the cord R, suhstantially as add for the purposes specified.

the sheaves C C, and are'eonnected to the elevating-rope S, as shown in the drawings. G G represent pins ,uponthe spool-flange -F,wherebythe same and the fork may be turned to screw said fork into the liay to be elevated. HI-represents an arm pivoted at!) to the arm B, and is provided with a projcction 'or stop, '0, which enters the recesses d in the'lhwer-side of flange E, which'are shown-in fig. 2. When the fork has been screwed into thehay, the arm H is raised sufficiently to throw thelatc'h or stop cinto one of the recesses d, which thus prevents thejrotationof the fork while the hay is being elevated. When the operator desires to release the hay from the fork, the latch c is withdrawn, and the weight of the causes the fork'ito rotate rapidly in the reverse direction, and thus unscrews'the-fork from the hay, and deposits it'ns desired.

Having described the construction'and operation of my improvement, liwill now'speci desire tosecure by Letters Patent,

what I claim, and

I claim in combination with a screw-fork, A, oporatingmsubstantially a's'described, the spool D E F and HERBERT E. DEWEY.

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J. W. Pnnnmsron, G. A. Prnansan. 

